Sally Brogden received her M.F.A. in ceramics from the New York State College of Ceramics; she received an A.B. in art history and a B.F.A. in ceramics from the University of Michigan. She has exhibited widely, including Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY; University of Michigan School of Art, Ann Arbor, MI; National Museum of Slovenia – Metelkova, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI; Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT; The Nevica Project, thenevicaproject.com; Beijing International Art Expo, Beijing, China; Santa Fe Clay, Santa Fe, NM; Vertigo Gallery, Denver; Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR; South Bend Art Museum, South Bend, IN; Maryland Arts Council, Baltimore, MD; Phillips Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA; Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA; Northern Clay Center, St. Paul, MN; and the Icheon World Ceramic Center, Kyonggii Province, Korea.

She was an invited Speaker at the 7th Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale, Icheon, S. Korea; an invited Presenter at the Shui-Li International Ceramic Symposium, Shui-Li, Taiwan and Sally was one of fifty artists selected for the exhibition “Taking Measure: American Ceramic Art at the New Millennium”, curated for the world ceramics conference in Yeoju, Korea, 2001. She has been an artist in residence at the Pottery Workshop, Jingdezhen, China; the Ceramic Center Berlin and the Archie Bray Foundation, where she served on the Board of Directors. Sally is an active member of the National Council For Education in The Ceramic Arts (NCECA) for which she founded the long running Graduate Student Image Forum.

Her work is included in the books 500 Ceramic Sculptures by Glen R. Brown, Ceramics: A Potter’s Handbook by Glenn C. Nelson, The Craft and Art of Clay by Susan Peterson; Dry Glazes by Jeremy Jernegan, Electric Kiln Ceramics by Richard Zakin; Taking Measure: American Ceramic Art at the New Millennium and A Ceramic Continuum: Fifty Years of the Archie Bray Influence, by Peter Held.